WiBF Career Coaching

A flexible and tailored program that will empower you to set your sights high and achieve.

Are you striving to achieve a promotion or career advancement? Recently transitioned into a new role or planning a move towards one? Or simply want to play a bigger game? Then this program is for you.

This program is designed for emerging leaders with coaching that is tailored to your individual needs and career trajectory.

Your coach will work with you to articulate individual program goals, with topics covered in the coaching sessions focused on topic such as:• How to articulate your career goals and plan the tangible steps towards achievement• Assessing your career achievements to date and identifying appropriate next steps • How to build strategic networks and sell your strengths to get your next promotion• How to articulate very clearly what you need from your workplace to realise your career aspirations• Advice for managing upwards to manager and sponsors to ask for the pay rise or promotion you want

Peak Performance Coaching Program at a Glance

This program is designed with flexibility in mind. You can start at any time and pace the sessions to suit your personal needs:

4 x one-on-one career coaching sessions

Pre-work to set program goals in the context of your unique challenges

What Alumni have said

This coaching experience was really great! Kristy was very approachable and helped me explore my strengths and areas of development. She showed me how to position my strengths which is what I needed. This is my first virtual coaching experience and the flexibility was really good given how busy we all are.”

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What Alumni have said

Through the career coaching I developed a lot of courage to have more open conversations with my manager about what I want to achieve in finance. These conversations led to some big opportunities including a fantastic promotion.”

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What Alumni have said

The coaching sessions were one of the best things I’ve done for my career. Had I not done this course, I don’t think I would have had the confidence to be this open and honest with my manager about what I exactly want to achieve in my career.”

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What Alumni have said

I’ve been promoted since attending the program. I can’t speak highly enough the executive coach. She has a great way of helping you understand what you’re looking for out of your career…and then putting the steps in place to get there.”

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What Alumni have said

It’s so refreshing to be able to sit down and talk about the real challenges I’m facing in building a career in finance. The opportunity to take the time out of the day-to-day to really think about my future was invaluable. I’d recommend this program to anyone who wants to be more strategic about where their career is heading.”

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About Your Coach

Kristy Macfarlane CPHR is a highly skilled leader and accredited executive coach with extensive experience spanning Australia and the UK. Kristy was most recently Head of Diversity & Inclusion at NAB, a role she held for more than five years; and prior to that worked in a global professional services firm where she specialised in talent, capability, culture and leadership.

Kristy uses a strengths-based approach in coaching to bring out the best in people and enable them to realise their potential, both in their career and their whole of life. Kristy combines her practical commercial experience as a senior leader in a top ASX company with her Diversity & Inclusion expertise, to bring a unique mix of experience and insight to her coaching conversations.

Kristy has a double degree in Commerce and Organisational Behaviour and is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School.

How to Apply

For Corporate Members seeking to register participants from your organisation – please email the WiBF Office.

For individuals seeking to register as a participant in the WiBF Peak Performance Coaching Program – please email the WiBF Office.